Creating a Product Redemption Point System with Appstle Subscriptions and Loyalty Lion

The primary use case some merchants might want is a credit system where the subscription gives them credits every billing cycle (like a monthly credit for being a member) for product redemption for later use. This example allows for the use of Loyalty Lion to keep track of the credits and then allow for redemption for one type of product(e.g. an ice cream item with different flavors or a bag with different colors). Appstle Subscription is responsible for the recurring billing of the customers. This use case works on the assumption that only one product type is used and all variants are the same price. This process would cost $5/month from a Loyalty Lion enhancement on their free plan for the reward rule.

After installing both Appstle Subscriptions and Loyalty Lion, the bare minimum for setup for each application and the Shopify store is as follows (assuming the store has been established in Shopify).

Shopify Store:

Appstle Subscription:

Loyalty Lion:

Membership Product:

The first step is to create a Membership product and a Product for redemption on your Shopify Panel to attach it to Appstle Subscriptions later as shown below. This is also where you will set the cost of your membership.

Make sure to set the purchase options to the following to remove any one time purchases of a membership.

Add redemption product to collection:

Afterwards, create a collection and add you products to redeem to it. Make sure to note the highlighted collection ID in the URL address. This number will be used later for the Loyalty Lion process. Please note that all of the products added here should be all the same price.

Create a Subscription plan and attach the Membership Product:

Create a plan according to your desired billing cycle and attach only the membership product(s) to the plan:

Integrate Loyalty Lion API

The Loyalty Lion integration needs two keys, the token and secret key. You can find these in the Loyalty Lion settings (Manage > Settings) as shown below.

After obtaining this key, you can integrate Appstle Subscriptions to Loyalty Lion by going to Support > App Integrations. Select Loyalty Lion to add the two keys.

Select enable and then put in how many points you want to give for each subscription order (both initial orders and renewals will give the same number of points). In this example we choose to give 2 points for each subscription order.

The amount of points you choose depends on how much the points are worth for redemption. In this case, 1 point redeems for 1 product as you’ll see in the Loyalty Lion setup. The multiplier part will be ignored since we are setting a fixed amount of points per order.

Disable all earning rules

In order to ensure that credits are only awarded to membership subscribers, disable all earning rules in Loyalty Lion (Manage > View rules).

Create an Award Rule for a fixed discount off the Product

Create a new reward for fixed discount off a collection (Manage > Create new reward). You will set the price to be equal to the cost of the redeemed product (in this case it is $10 off a $10 product). Make sure the minimum spend is set to $0. Set the point cost to be however many points are needed for a free product (in this example 1 point gives 1 free product). Lastly, add the collection ID and name the reward.

After completing the setup, the customer flow is as follows:

3. Customer Checkout (customer manually inputs code)

To enable redemption of multiple prices, you can also add a second reward rule and create a new collection depending on how you are doing your program. Please note that the maintenance of what products are in the collection is all dependent on the Shopify store administrator as the apps to do not automatically create collections or manage the products.

This process is the cheapest way to implement this, but for a more seamless checkout Loyalty Lion offers more options with their more expensive plans. This includes upgrades such as buy with points which will apply the codes directly to the checkout as opposed to the customer having to put the code in themselves. Please check the Loyalty Lion page for the most current plan pricing.
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In summary, this method needs the store setup to be ready and the steps above followed for the Shopify Admin, Appstle Subscriptions, and Loyalty Lion. The main things to remember are as follows: